Awesome GCP Certifications

Contents

• Common Resources For All Certifications
• Miscellaneous References
• Best Practices
• Associate Cloud Engineer
• Professional Cloud Architect
• Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
• Professional Cloud Developer
• Professional Cloud Network Engineer
• Professional Cloud Security Engineer
• Professional Data Engineer
• Professional Collaboration Engineer
• Fellow Hybrid Multi-cloud
• GSuite
• Apigee Certified API Engineer
• Contributing
• Maintaining Exam Integrity

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Common Resources

These references are useful across all certifications.

Published	Title/Link	Author
2020/03	Getting all the 10/10 GCP certificates – how do I start? Part 1/X	Konrad Clapa
2020/02	AwesomeGCP Channel	Sathish VJ
	TechDevGuide - Cloud Computing	Google
	GCP Certification	GCP Docs
	FAQs - GCP Certification	Frequently Asked Questions
	Cloud Solutions Architecture Reference	GCP Docs
	Tutorials in the Docs - collected list	GCP Docs
	Google Cloud Solutions	GCP Docs
	Google Cloud Products and Solutions in 4 words	Greg Wilson
	GCP Building Blocks - A Glossary of GCP Terms
	FREE codes for Qwiklabs	Sathish VJ
	FAQs on GCP Certification Exams	Sathish VJ
	Grace's Flowcharts	Grace
	GCP Essentials - Staying in Touch	Alexis MP
	Community Tutorials
	CodeLabs/cloud	developers.google
	Google Cloud Training - Classroom Schedule	various trainers
	Google Cloud Training - Course Listing and Contents	QwikLabs
	Google Cloud Whitepapers	Google
	GCP Blog	Google
	GCP Data Analytics Blog	Google
2019/01	On Passing All Google Cloud Certifications	Sathish VJ
2018/10	Google Cloud - Jumpstart, Tutorials & Community!	David das Neves
	Pluralsight courses on GCP	Google Cloud
	Coursera courses on GCP	Google Cloud
	Cloud Minute - 1 minute videos	Google Cloud
	github GCP code repo	Google Cloud

Miscellaneous References

Published	Title/Link	Author
	Weekly Newsletter	Zdenko Hrček
	Forum for certified people (invite only)
	Google Cloud Certified Credential Holder Directory (voluntary list)
	Directory of Google Developer Experts (GDE) for Cloud
2019/04	Google Cloud Platform Authorized Trainer	Sathish VJ

Best Practices

Title	Link
AI Hub Data Preprocesing	https://aihub.cloud.google.com/p/products%2F31bf71d8-d513-4926-92dc-23b2f913afce
Anthos Environ Requirements	https://cloud.google.com/anthos/multicluster-management/environs/best-practices
Anthos Migration Planning	https://cloud.google.com/migrate/anthos/docs/planning-best-practices
Apigee APIs	https://cloud.google.com/files/apigee/apigee-api-best-practices-ebook.pdf
Audit Logs	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/best-practices-for-working-with-google-cloud-audit-logging
Audit Logs	https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/audit/best-practices
AutoML Creating Training Data	https://cloud.google.com/automl-tables/docs/data-best-practices
AutoML Video Intelligence Object Tracking	https://cloud.google.com/video-intelligence/automl/object-tracking/docs/best-practices
AutoML	https://cloud.google.com/automl-tables/docs/data-best-practices
BigQuery Cost Optimization	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/cost-optimization-best-practices-for-bigquery
BigQuery Materialized Views	https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/materialized-views-best-practices
BigQuery Optimizing Query Performance	https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/best-practices-performance-overview
BigQuery Optimizing Storage	https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/best-practices-storage
Build Speeding Up	https://cloud.google.com/cloud-build/docs/speeding-up-builds
Building Containers	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-building-containers
Cloud Functions	https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/bestpractices/tips
Cloud Router	https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/router/resources/best-practices
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL	https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/best-practices
Cloud SQL	https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/best-practices
Compute Engine Region Selection	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-compute-engine-region-selection
Content Delivery	https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/best-practices
DNS	https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs/best-practices-dns
Data Governance	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/principles-and-best-practices-for-data-governance-in-the-cloud
Dataproc	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/7-best-practices-for-running-cloud-dataproc-in-production
Datastore	https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/best-practices
Datastore	https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/cloud-datastore-best-practices
Deployment Manager Type Provider	https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/docs/configuration/type-providers/best-practices-api
Deployment Manager	https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/docs/best-practices
Deployment Manager	https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/docs/best-practices?hl=zh-tw
Dialogflow	https://cloud.google.com/dialogflow/docs/best-practices
Enterprise Multi-tenancy	https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/best-practices/enterprise-multitenancy
Firestore	https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs/best-practices
Floating IP Addresses	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-floating-ip-addresses
For Enterprise Organizaations	https://cloud.google.com/docs/enterprise/best-practices-for-enterprise-organizations
GSuite Sharing Documents	https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/perspectives/best-practices-for-sharing-documents-in-g-suite
Google Maps	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform/15-google-maps-platform-best-practices
IAM and Billing	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-iam-and-billing-in-higher-education
IAM	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/iam-best-practice-guides-available-now
Identity - Password Management	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/best-practices-for-password-management-2019-edition
Identity Aware Proxy	https://cloud.google.com/iap/docs/concepts-best-practices
Identity Federation	https://cloud.google.com/architecture/identity/best-practices-for-federating
Kubernetes	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/your-guide-kubernetes-best-practices
Kubernetes	https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/kubernetes-best-practices
Management Tools Client Libraries	https://cloud.google.com/apis/docs/client-libraries-best-practices
Media Translation	https://cloud.google.com/translate/media/docs/best-practices
Media Translation	https://cloud.google.com/translate/media/docs/best-practices?hl=tr
Memorystore for Redis Performance Tuning	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/performance-tuning-best-practices-for-memorystore-for-redis
Memorystore for Redis	https://cloud.google.com/memorystore/docs/redis/memory-management-best-practices
Microservice Performance	https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/microservice-performance
Migrating VMs	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-migrating-vm-to-compute-engine
Moving VMs	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/cloud-migration/tips-and-best-practices-for-moving-your-vms-to-compute-engine
MySQL Importing and Exporting Data	https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/import-export
Operating Containers	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-operating-containers
Optimizing Costs	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/best-practices-for-optimizing-your-cloud-costs
Planning Accounts and Organizations	https://cloud.google.com/architecture/identity/best-practices-for-planning
Preemptible VM Instances	https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/create-start-preemptible-instance
Running Active Directory	https://cloud.google.com/managed-microsoft-ad/docs/best-practices
SQL Server Instances	https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/best-practices
Secure IAM	https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/using-iam-securely
Spanner Bulk Loading	https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/bulk-loading
Spanner Data Manipulation Language	https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/dml-best-practices
Spanner SQL	https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/sql-best-practices
Spanner Schema Design	https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/schema-design
Spanner	https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/best-practice-list
Speech API	https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/best-practices?hl=ru&refresh=1pli%3D1
Speech to Text	https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/best-practices
Storage	https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/best-practices
Super Administrator Account	https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/super-admin-best-practices
Tightly Coupled HPC Apps	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-using-mpi-on-compute-engine
User Account, Authentication and Password Management	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/12-best-practices-for-user-account
VPC design	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-vpc-design
VPN	https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/vpn/resources/best-practices
VPN	https://cloud.google.com/vpn/docs/resources/best-practices
Working with Cloud Support	https://cloud.google.com/support/docs/best-practice

Contributing

• Please contribute to making this list really awesome, exhaustive, and up to date.
• Contributing to this list is easy: a pull request in this repo or you can also send me the info on LinkedIn or Twitter.
• Please provide details as required by that section. Links, author names, date published, which certification(s) does it apply to, etc.
• For book links, preferably send a search link with the book and author name. (Why? Using an amazon.com link assumes that all readers are in one country and using one book seller.)

Maintaining Exam Integrity

• Google takes the privacy of the exams very seriously.
• If and when you write notes, do not reveal details about the exam.
  • What questions were asked?
  • How many questions on each topic?
  • Anything that compromises the integrity of the exam.
• When one of my blog posts leaked some exam info, I was contacted by the Google Certifications Team.
• If you find any posts that I've listed which might be a concern, please let me and also the original authors know.